Zeroth Directive

For a drifter, the title of 'herbalist' is a useful one. People are always ready to trust a doctor, and will not question what is inside her bag even as it bulges at the seams. While she does make use of this identity to approach her targets, it is not a false one. She really does have medical skills, and is able to treat minor scrapes and illnesses with ease. She is even famous as a wandering medic in some regions of Iberia. According to her, her medical knowledge stems mostly from observing which herbs wild beasts would eat when poisoned or ill, or noting what herbs other doctors had used to treat her. She would then gather these herbs and dig them out of her bag the next time she ran into similar circumstances, either for herself or others. She claims the results speak for themselves, and that she's never run into any issues with this method. However, we have also asked Operator Thorns his opinion, as he has received her treatment before. During a serious bout of motion sickness while traversing the Salt Flat, he drank an herbal soup offered by Rose Salt. As soon as it went down his throat, he found himself gripped by some indescribable force restoring his vitality, allowing him to walk the shuddering saltship like it was dry land. His limbs also felt like they had minds of their own, and it took a while before he felt in control of them again. He only later learned the cause of this: Rose Salt had given him an anti-nausea dosage appropriate for a healthy adult mangler beast. While it did cure his motion sickness for good, he does not recommend taking her prescriptions lightly. While she does stock life-saving herbs (though given the aforementioned incident, 'life-saving' is debateable), the majority of Rose Salt's herb collection is instead for inducing dizziness. While she claims this is for self-defense, after seeing her knock out a raging tuskbeast with ease during a mission, most people no longer believe a word she says. However, Aak has displayed a keen interest in his new coworker. After all, the censer she carries is effective in distributing all sorts of smoke and vapors. The two of them have been secretly collaborating in the development of 'miracle cures'. We can only hope that we have not found ourselves yet another laboratory explosion extraordinaire.

Archive IV

There is a phrase Rose Salt is fond of saying: 'I'm going to live the good life!' And true enough, she came aboard Rhodes Island one day with a large sum of money. Apparently, it was a reward for remarkable performance during a mission. With it, she bought herself fine clothes, shiny jewelry, and all sorts of things she did not need in the slightest: a small bedside couch made with silk, a hand mirror inlaid with miniature diamonds, and a gorgeous gown with a hem trailing along the floor, etc. Yet she still dresses in her usual clothes, having set aside such finery after only wearing it once or twice. She is simply unused to these refined luxuries. She piles the silk couch full of things she needs for her missions, the diamond-studded mirror is wedged beneath her luggage to balance it out, the gorgeous gown is draped over the bed to form a sheet, and everything else is stuffed into whatever free space there is in the small dorm we assigned to her. The glinting and glimmering coming from random corners of her room is proof enough that they exist. It seems this is the 'good life' she always dreamed of. Moreover, the moment she has her wages for the month, she always tops up her meal card before spending the rest as soon as she can, buying all sorts of beautiful baubles she needs (or does not need), filling her dorm more and more. Rarely does she ever actually wear any of them, though. We are not sure why, but compared to others with such lavish tastes, who delight in decorating themselves, Rose Salt seems to prefer the act of spending money itself, as well as simply owning these sparkling treasures. Many items in her collection are things she has owned for a very long time. While they no longer shine like they used to, she still takes good care of them. One time, she lost one of her baubles. She tracked it all the way to the trash storage, digging the once-beautiful object from its depths. It is as if what she cares about is not their appearance, but simply possessing them. Yet it seems this is still not the 'good life' she longs for. As the days passed, Rose Salt tried the life of an ordinary, rule-abiding operator, doing ordinary fieldwork and earning an ordinary wage. She has also tried returning to the life of a drifter in Iberia, assisting Rhodes Island by discreetly gathering intelligence, and occasionally earning a big wad of cash for her troubles. But after asking around, she has begun to show a keen interest in developed nations such as Columbia or Kazimierz. It is apparent that in her eyes, these two countries are lands of endless wealth. We are unsure where she picked up such notions, but she is convinced she will strike it rich there. To her, she is destined to join the upper echelons of moneyed society as a hyper-rich magnate of some sort, and finally live the true 'good life' of her dreams.

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